The company buys existing oil-and-gas fields, which cuts the risk but also the payoff.
Bois d'Arc's reserve life is 14 years, though, double that of the typical Gulf oil-and-gas firm.
Oil- and gas-rich Congo-Brazzaville, Tanzania and Zambia are among the 12 African countries to benefit.
Analysts, though, point to strong profit growth from Genting's palm oil plantations and oil-and-gas-production business.
The schism comes at a bad time for the still-fragile (and still-oil-addicted) global economy.
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America and Britain argue that the Iraqi government has itself to blame for oil-for-food's slow progress.
Although oil-for-food was supposed to start nearly two years ago, progress has been intolerably slow.
For long-term investors, the oil-to-gas ratio is indicative of a paradigm shift in the markets.
So from a financial perspective, the oil-to-gas ratio is very different than in terms of energy.
The UN said that it planned to restart the oil-for-food mechanism, with or without Iraqi authorisation.
The UN's humanitarian oil-for-food programme would be phased out over six months, not four.
Radical movements hostile to private investment in Bolivia's oil-and-gas sector have been blockading roads for weeks.
These moves have encouraged the oil-and-gas industry, even as they have driven the environmental community nuts.
You base your argument on the premise that the oil-for-food programme does not work.
Norm Coleman, who did sterling work digging into billions in corruption under Oil-for-Food, is now gone from the Senate.
He says he wants the private sector to make up 70% of non-oil-and-gas GDP by 2020.
This week Bill Clinton vowed to create a home-heating-oil reserve for the north-eastern states.
When prices are low, oil-rich countries welcome the low-cost, high-tech and well-capitalised oil firms.
They account for only 6% of non-oil-and-gas exports and 14% of the value added by local manufacturing.
Thanks to this flood of shale gas, the oil-to-gas ratio has risen to almost 17 on average.
Oil-and-gas firms have been fracking on a large scale in Canada and America for over a decade.
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High oil prices, and the world's largest oil-and-gas reserves, have helped pay off most of Russia's debt.
The company uses 15 waste-vegetable-oil-powered trucks to deliver 30 to 55 percent of its products on average.
Third, and most important, Timor-Leste's oil-and-gas income is relatively modest, and started to flow only after independence.
's Oil-for-Food program, which ran from 1996 to 2003 and was aimed at helping the people of U.N.
Rick Pfeiffer, a 58-year-old CEO of an oil-field equipment-services company, has lived in Mumbai, Singapore and Darien, Conn.
Based in Houston, Forum Energy makes products and parts used in land-based and offshore oil-and-gas exploration and development.
The products it sells are used by oil- and gas-drilling companies, pipeline companies, refineries and other energy-sector firms.
But the UN, rightly, turns some of the criticism over oil-for-food back to America (and its ally, Britain).
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It is physically impossible for oil-for-food revenues (in a UN-controlled account in New York) to be siphoned anywhere.
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